behaviour of trade unions? To approach these questions theoretical as well as empirical methods were used. The empirical methods …

Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring … countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage … distribution within these three economies. The findings suggest that the political economy of unions, coupled with market …

agreements, and made industry-level unions more effective in guaranteeing the protections provided by labor standards. …

This paper utilizes household and establishment survey data from Mexico to explore the impact of unions on wages, wage … inequality, fringe benefits, turnover, job training, productivity, and profits. Mexican unions are statistically significantly … associated with these outcome measures for workers and firms. Unions are associated with increased wages, decreased wage …

der Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft und der Tarifbindung sowie die Konsequenzen von Tarifvertraegen fuer Loehne, betriebliche … studies on trade unions and collective bargaining in Germany. These studies have examined the determinants of trade union …